Managing Rights Management

Nokia and TBS Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Nokia (FI), the first application discloses techniques for data sharing using smart contracts. Assigned to TBS, the second application discloses techniques for providing media content to content consumers for playback and... Read more →

Trend Micro and Sony Blockchain and DRM Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Trend Micro (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for distributed digital rights management with decentralized key management. Assigned to Sony (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for blockchain-based digital rights management.... Read more →

Ma and D3D Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Moses T. Ma, the first application discloses techniques for managing intellectual property using a blockchain. Assigned D3D (KR), the second application discloses techniques for processing copyright and profit distribution of clothes... Read more →

Thompson Reuters and ANT Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Thompson Reuters, the first patent addresses techniques for remedying erroneous transactions in a distributed ledger system. Assigned to ANT (KY), the second patent addresses techniques for implementing cross-chain data trusted management.... Read more →

Jiangsu Aowei Enterprise Development and RBC Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Jiangsu Aowei Holdings (CN), the first application discloses techniques for transaction-based electronic contract forensics. Assigned to the Royal Bank of Canada, the second application discloses techniques for an electronic identity brokerage.... Read more →

Salesforce Smart Contract and Wells Fargo Quantum Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to Salesforce, the first patent addresses techniques for implementing declarative smart actions for coins and assets transacted onto a blockchain using distributed ledger technology (DLT). The second of today's patents is the... Read more →

Inveniam and Aristocrat Blockchain Patent Applications

Blockchains (smart contracts, distributed ledgers) and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Applications. Assigned to Inveniam, the first application discloses techniques for digital contracts in blockchain environments. Assigned to Aristocrat, the second application discloses techniques for a mobile support system for providing wagering game play to... Read more →

ANT and IBM Blockchain Patents

Smart contracts, blockchains (distributed ledgers), and rights management broadly construed are the themes of today's Spotlight Patents. Assigned to ANT, the first patent address techniques for blockchain-based judgment execution. Assigned to IBM, the second patent addresses techniques for consent-based data management. 11,238,549, "Blockchain-based judgment execution," assigned to Advanced New Technologies... Read more →